Friends Don't Die, they just get memorialized on a pick-up truck

Has anyone else noticed the trend of putting a memorial to a loved on the back windshield of cars? It's nice that you remember Bobby Jay's death on May 20, 2003 and that he was born on Febtober 12, 1980, but does the world need to be bummed out?

What really gets me is that the person being memorialized usually died from a car accident. Isn't that taunting? It's not like naming a cancer treatment center after a cancer victim, because the treatment center is designed to help people. The memorial decals are causing people, like me, to stop and read them. Thereby altering our driving habits and making us more susceptible to accidents. And then the memorial decal cycle begins again.



CASE IN POINT: Man sits in the bed of his truck after placing a memorial decal on the rear window. Man has turned his truck into a memorial in memory of Carl Lanham, a friend who died in a traffic accident. Photo by John Dunham, Courtesy of the Owensboro Messenger Inquirer